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The War to Come, part 3 is the primary story in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Universe issue 3.
Solicit[]
Cornered and injured, the Turtles have no escape from the forces aligned against them! Raphael must learn to compromise with his enemy if any are to survive!
Appearing in The War to Come, part 3[]
Characters[]
- Alex Winter
- April O'Neil
- Baxter Stockman
- Donatello
- Dragon
- John Bishop
- Kara Lewis
- Leonardo
- Michelangelo
- Raphael
- The Rat King
- Wesley Knight
- Zodi
Synopsis[]
Donatello begins to wake up, overhearing Stockman muttering to himself that when the time is right, he’ll make his move. Outside the control room, Raphael unties the scorpion mutant, who he blames for their current situation. The scorpion mutant introduces herself as Zodi and the two of them begin to brawl. Zodi throws Raph off with her tail but in retaliation he pins one of her hands to the floor with one of his sais, allowing Raph to land blow after blow until the other Turtles intervene. Donnie wakes up and stumbles out of the room, asking the others what’s going on. Michelangelo quickly fills in Donnie and Zodi makes more cutting remarks.
Sergeant Winter asks Colonel Knight how long it will be before their reinforcements show up, because Bishop is intent on continuing to send men into the building rather than wait. Meanwhile, April, Leo, Donnie, and Zodi, who they have agreed to work with in order for them all to escape, begin examining the perimeter defense orbs. After lassoing one, the orb once again electrocutes Zodi, but the group finds that it will not target April. Inside the control room, Stockman tells Mikey not to push any buttons. Over the sound of Stockman and Mikey’s bickering, Raph hears some Dark Water mercenaries making their way up one of the elevator shafts and goes to head them off. Raph leaps down, striking at the mercenaries climbing up the elevator shaft. Mikey warns Raph that Stockman is about to activate the building’s security measures and Raph climbs back out at the last moment, before metal bars close the entryways to the elevator shaft and a laser grid comes online inside.
Atop the roof, Leo, Donnie, April, and Zodi iron out the details in the plan they’ve devised. April will leap to the next building since the drones won’t attack a human, sneak past the perimeter of mercenaries and police officers, and get to safety so she can figure out how to send help to the others. April readies herself and runs to the edge of the building, leaping into the air and towards the roof of the next building. Down below, one of the Dark Water mercenaries spies her and attempts to shoot her down, but Detective Lewis knocks into him, causing him to clip April in the arm. April barely manages to make it to the other building, but pulls herself up over the ledge and onto the roof. Bishop orders his men to go after her and he is forced to detain Detective Lewis who objects to the turn of events. Lewis tells Bishop that all his talk of collaborators and being at war is insanity but he tells her that humanity will thank him in the end.
On top of the roof, Raph gets mad at hearing that the others let April leap to the other building and get hurt in the process. Mikey tells Raph that he has to get over whatever is causing his bad attitude. Raph admits to his brothers that he’s been struggling to deal with the frenetic pace their lives have taken, and that he’s scared that if it keeps up, one of them may die. Mikey reassures Raph that everything will be okay if they stick together. Zodi tells the Turtles that they should take a look down below, where Bishop’s reinforcements have finally arrived, with more men, helicopters, and heavy-duty armored vehicles.
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Trivia[]
- Raph references the time he was alone on the streets in TMNT (IDW) #1 and the time Donnie nearly died in TMNT (IDW) #44.
- Mikey mentions that Alopex is missing. She disappeared in TMNT (IDW) #60.
- Leo last encountered the Rat King in the Thin Place in TMNT (IDW) #36.
- The monstrous Shredder doppelgangers are homages to the Mutant Shredder Clones that originally appeared in TMNT (Vol. 1) #20.